St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-13
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blow it would be to your friends tosec
you
GOING ABOUT PowDERING YOUR NOSE,
shaving your eyebrows down to the
decorative line that you like, wearing
girlish gowns to make you look innO-
cent. and coyly refusing to tell your age!
At present this is not your state at all,
but all the same, bewarel You are not
of the stuff that is willing that the cruel
world shall laugh its fill.
Having given you all the time you de-
serve let us look at the occupant of the
next, chair. Poor creature, she is one of
the heavy-heeled. philosophical kind.
You can tell it by the very way she is
lying there, eyes shut, back to every
body, martyr evidently to her own
mind, for she groans occasionally at the
I9t{me it is taking her to get into proper
state. Yet look well at those feet
Itiike bOtanist in this garden
of wOmankind, and you know
the species. She is given to fiOcking all
by herself in the corners and to stamp
l9ing about on foolish missions. and to
saying cruel, bitter things about better
favored women. Her feet have not as
stunned the ugly shape they are because
Of any weakness for tight boots. 1t has
been simply because she is always
woman who can see but one side of
Question, and she has only made sure to
get boots that were wide enough, re
5eardless of the ength. As for caring,
does? Not bit! When those big joints
ache OF a rainy day she thinks of
it only as a part of her
usual state of affliction. So. if
she is content, why should not we be?
There cannot be the slightest doubt
about their being large enough to carry
her about, for, do the best you can, you
cannot look at the thin support that
shape themselves beneath the clinging
sheet without thinking of that old prov
erb: "Great roots meath little sap
lings grow" Let us leave her. In any
thing short Of a landslide she is all
right.
Next to her comes the argumentative
woman. Ever since we have been think
ing she has been chattering, and now
for the first time she has willing list
ener. The other women have rather
snubbed her, but this one has been so
clever that they have grown cOnfiden-
tial. What is that they are talking
about? Kissing, as | live! She evil
IDENTIFY does not believe in it, for she is
denOuncing the freedom of society most
rOundly and arguing for return to the
good old-faShioned blue law. The
others listen in silence, even when she
gets excited and sits up and twists her
feet together and declares that she
thinks sit is worse than indecent for a
man to kiss his wife continually. Once
day, say as she meets him at break
fast, is quite sufficient"
EVERY WOMAN IN THE ROOM
is little dashed at that, but not word
is said until that dear, little, quiet
woman over in the corner raises herself
up slowly and drawls out Sweetly:
II beg your pardon, madam. but were
you ever married, may aSk?"
''NO, indeed, never was" is the tart
answer, and then isn't there a scream
from all concerned. In high dudgeOn
the spicy spinSter takes herself off to
the steam room and we see her no more.
We regret that, though we have become
little formal in our relations, but
couldn't you have told it from those
thin. narrOw-minded, dead-looking feet?
1t makes one shudder just to think how
cold they must be of winters night,
doesn't it?
Naturally enough after her retort
courteous the little woman over in the
corner is the most interesting study.
Her toes are as pink MZM
as pink can be, and EEA
there are crinkleS in 81
the soles like those ~
in a ''blooming ba- NJ
by's." The only x
trouble is that the N>H0V@NSTjx
toes lap more than ! ~
is really pardOna- I
Bile. ALI the same, AS1-A
can you not see her k-,,,,,-sM
in them? You may MfHniINN
be sure that this is MIIMHtMA
not far from her. EfQNIGE Ehl
Two years ago she y. LNMXil1
was flighty little Eg(N#E INK
thing trotting about lnISjN# lllJLt
in tOoth-pick shoes, SEII NH llnY
towed by berib- VII i 1s&&S1
bOned pug, and tow gKRxyiI
ing herself de- M MSSH
NOw,~ ~ MGH
She is sensible lit kAM3kiIu
tie wife, who now 5Slit3
and then looks re- 1890 49, -
gretfully at her E ~
crumpled toes and y fuNE
wishes she had had M.l l& NA
more sense, but NJ
whose mind is in
the main, so full of wisdom and cash
books, and ''rainy day pennies" and
marketing and Georges hose, and there
is little room for regrets. 1t was i'm
pulse and little girlishness" that made
her put up her pink toes in smaller par
GELS than were good for them, and the
impulse and the ''girl'' in her will see